Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. Henri-Frédéric Amiel History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965) Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton
English mathematician & physicist (1642 - 1727) How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. Raymond Chandler
US detective novelist & screenwriter (1888 - 1959) Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish author (1850 - 1894) Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. Sir William Osler
British (Canadian-born) physician (1849 - 1919) Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. William Hazlitt
English essayist (1778 - 1830) My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. Jean Rostand, Journal of a Character, 1931
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